PRINGLE, John (1707-1782). Observations on the Diseases of the Army, in Camp and Garrison. London: A. Millar, D. Wilson and T. Payne, 1752. 8o (202 x 124 mm). (Fly-leaf with tape repair.) Contemporary calf (upper joint split). Provenance: Grisell Baillie (ink notation on title, bookplate). FIRST EDITION, Presentation copy, with the recipient's note on title: "A present from the Author Grisell Baillie." "In this book Pringle outlined the basic principles of military sanitation and stressed the proper ventilation of military quarters regardless of their location" (Heirs of Hippocrates). Garrison-Morton 2150; Grolier Medicine 73B; Heirs of Hippocrates 879; Norman 1755. -- [Bound with:] PRINGLE. Observations on the Nature and Cure of Hospital and Jayl-Fevers. London: A. Millar and D. Wilson, 1750. FIRST EDITION. "Pringle was a strong advocate of better ventilation in prisons and hospitals as a means of preventing typhus, which he showed to be identical with 'hospital fever'" (Garrison-Morton). Garrison-Morton 5374; Norman 1754. -- PRINGLE. Observations of the Diseases of the Army... Another copy. 8o (207 x 129 mm). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: E.G. Graham Little. Norman 1756. -- Six Discourses delivered by... when President of the Royal Society... to which is prefaced the Life of the Author. Edited by Andrew Kippis. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783. 8o (208 x 130 mm). Contemporary tree calf (rebacked). Norman 1758. (3)